The Benefits Of Meditation.

What Is Meditation?

Meditation helps in establishing a proper connection between both our external and our internal worlds. It further awakens our body and benefits of all its aspects of both the subconscious and conscious layers of our mind.

If there is something common among all of us, then it is undoubtedly the flaming urge to remain satisfied and happy in life. No matter if it’s a crying baby, a responsible family person, or an insecure teenager, every person in this universe seeks the thing that helps in providing comfort. According to Trinlay Rinpoche, an accomplished scholar and meditator, the actual source of happiness lies in the clarity of thoughts and actions.

All sorts of external factors are only pleasurable as far as we are happy from our heart. A famous quote from Gautama Buddha states that meditation helps in training the mind and not to dwell in the past or to contemplate our future. It helps the mind settle in the present and further allows us to see the actual beauty that the present holds. This particular article is just an effort for us to understand why meditation actually works so well on us and how we can actually resort to its benefits in order to become a better version of ourselves.

Benefits of Meditation

• Meditation Helps in Improving Cognition: According to several researchers, the best way for professionals to increase the overall likelihood of success is to keep practicing meditation as a part of our everyday routine. Both mindful and transcendent meditation practices help in improving the brain's problem-solving and decision-making capability. Furthermore, it can help in bringing a proper shift to both our personal and our professional life.

• Meditation Helps In Enhancing Empathy: The compassion type of meditation helps in firing neural connections direct to the brain further regulating positive emotions such as kindness or empathy. The deep state of flow that meditation induces helps in building social connectedness and makes a person both amicable and affectionate human being.

• Meditation Helps In Stabilizing Stress: Stress can be defined as the body's response to unforeseen adversities. Encountering immediate sort of threats generally increases the overall level of human stress hormone or cortisol and it further activates the autonomic nervous system especially for flight or fight responses. Studies conducted on the brains of regular meditators have revealed that having lower levels of cortisol in their brains, explains their insightful and resilient nature.

• Meditation Helps In Promoting Emotional Well-being And Health: Several studies have proved that meditation improves self-worth and self-image. While a person meditates, they tend to get a very clear sort of picture of the mind while becoming aware of the thoughts that help in driving actions and emotions at the moment. Moreover, regular meditation helps in decreasing the overall likelihood of developing mood-related disorders and depression while promoting positive thinking and emotional health.

• Meditation Helps in Increasing Attention: Mindful meditation comes naturally especially when we meditate, and we reach a state of flow where our mind is in complete harmony with itself. It is even found that people who meditates for a shorter duration of time showcased more focus than other individuals who didn’t meditate at all.

Authors Note: Our mental health is more important than ever with the pandemic still going so strongly. For some having to stay home, dealing with lots of change, or financial instability has caused a lot of stress. Meditation does work. Definitely give it a try if you’re up to it.

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